
The idea that Azur Lane wanted to cut ties with a "rude" or disrespectful artist stems from 2 separate incidents. Azur Lane listened to their fans, unfortunately it wasn't the fans some would have suggested listening to. Those tossing around the accusation of Azur Lane bending the knee are the exact same type of people who scream video game companies should listen to their fans. Now, it is possible and highly likely these people are SJWs or have SJW leanings but to imply they are not players of the game is absurd. The "evidence" of Piukute062 buying votesįirst off, anyone in the Azur Lane English language community will admit the issue of lewd loading screens was brought up many, many times in the past by actual Azur Lane fans. However, all of these wild conspiracy theories would turn out to be false. Accusations that Azur Lane wanted to cut ties with a "rude" artist or that Piukute062 and Linka "bought" votes were also trotted out. Accusations of Azur Lane bending the knee to the SJW outrage mob surfaced. This reply from the English language staff of Azur Lane left people with all kinds of questions and several theories as to what really happened. Thanks for your understanding and support for HQ. We reiterate our respect to all kinds of fan arts, and we will be more careful with such issues in the future. We will keep trying to contact the artist and solve the issue in a proper way. Hereby, we want to express our sincerest apology to the artist, and to all his/her fans. We intended to make a contact with the artist to clarify such situation before the artwork was removed, but he/she was unable to be reached on our Discord server. In answer to your recent feedback, we removed a Halloween artwork, which had brought inconvenience to commanders when the game was played in public, from the current loading screens during yesterday’s hotfix. In about 12 hours the Azur Lane team removed the "offensive" artwork This loading screen issue finally boiled over when all Azur Lane English language social media areas became a clash between fans/supporters of Piukute062 and Linka's art and those who hated/opposed its inclusion in the game. Piukute062 himself had expressed that it would be disrespectful to the artists to allow players to hide certain loading screens. These pleas from fans seemingly fell on deaf ears as Azur Lane staffers appeared to completely ignore the issue. Members of the community had asked for the ability to select which loading screens they would see with a toggle switch or some similar mechanic implemented into game. The idea that some fans of Azur Lane felt they couldn't play the game around friends, family, or the general public was something that had been expressed to the Azur Lane staff several times. Piukute062's winning National Holiday Art Extravaganza drawing (Yes, both those screens are too lewd for Google Adsense.) While you may laugh at people playing a waifu collecting game being embarrassed by a lewd loading screen, this was an ongoing complaint from fans of the English language version of Azur Lane. Fans who had expressed reservations about a bathing loading screen were now upset about Piukute062 and Linka's winning entry. Almost immediately after the winners were announced there was quite an uproar on the Azur Lane Discord server. The duo managed to finish up in 5th place after trailing behind in 7th for a while. Since you know the art was removed it is fairly obvious that Piukute062 and Linka won the contest. As you may have guessed, this game was originally released in China and brought over to the West sometime later. It is a game heavy on the fanservice and not shy about letting you know it knows why you're playing. You command these shipgirls in sidescrolling battles against other shipgirls and warships, partake in minigames, and collect waifus.

Azur Lane is a gacha game that features real life warships anthropomorphized into loli girls and busty maidens. If you're still reading, then allow me to quickly summarize this game. If you clicked on this article then you probably have an idea what kind of game Azur Lane is so if that is the case you can skip past this paragraph.

As such a line about it in the article was slightly altered. *Editor's note 3: The Azur Lane staff has said they have heard the people asking for a loading screen toggle and internal discussions about it are ongoing. *Editor's note 2: a member of the Azur Lane staff, Intern-Kun gave a personal statement on the issue to our writer and it was added to the end. We have corrected the error and docked our writer's pay. *Editor's note, the game was incorrectly stated as being from Japan instead of China.
